Allison Bisbey

Sponsoring securitizations of the loans funded on its platform will give LendingClub more control over its reputation in the market and make it less beholden to direct loan buyers.

The trend of putting ever-smaller pieces of the same commercial mortgages into multiple securitizations requires investors to be extra careful, and will inevitably make workouts of bad loans more complicated.

Navient and Nelnet, the two largest student loan servicers, avoided downgrades on some $18 billion of bonds by extending their maturities. Getting the required consents from investors would normally take ages, but recent innovations speeded the process.

Triumph Bancorp in Texas agreed to sell its CLO management firm just months after new risk retention rules kicked in.

The Structured Finance Industry Group and Chamber of Digital Commerce will explore ways distributed ledger technology might speed transaction processing and improve transparency.

PHH is selling its remaining residential mortgage servicing portfolio to the real estate investment trust New Residential.

Commercial mortgage lenders, and investors in their bonds, have been more eager than the residential market to embrace Property Assessed Clean Energy loans even though those loans hold a superior-lien position. Here's why.

A recent federal court decision affirming the right of a servicer to collect on private student loans originated on Sallie Mae's behalf is good news for several parties, including marketplace lenders and others that partner with banks to make loans.

Both government-sponsored enterprises discount the rates on loans for buildings with "green" certifications; they also underwrite some of the projected savings from upgrades on buildings of a certain age, allowing owners to take out bigger loans.

Steve Eisman, who profited from the mortgage meltdown, tells an industry crowd why he thinks the financial system is safer under Dodd-Frank, why Silicon Valley is "clueless" about lending and what the next "big short" will be.